Synology NAS as backup drive

Using Apple TimeMaschine to backup entire Macbook is an easy step. But what about files, which are shared between users/devices? here comes a Synology NAS to help.

I’ve been using Synology since DS207. Now a DS216+ saves all the precious data and pictures. As I wrote, backup a Mac with TimeMaschine on a Synology DiskStation is an easy step. But what about shared file on cloud platform like Dropbox, Google Drive and so on? Synology can handle that too :)

Update on Google disabling sync of Photo to Drive

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Fail downloading file on Android

How hard is it, to write a PHP script to allow user to download a file? really easy, one would say. Just send the appropriate HTTP header and echo the file content.

Basically that’s all I need to force download per PHP. But somehow Android stock browser (Chrome) only downloads and creates a 0 kB file. Other browser (tested with Firefox on Android) saves the file correctly.

What does happen here?

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